Alex's favorites were USBCell, BuzzLogic, Pluggd, Retrevo.
Two other DEMO wraps I liked were ZDNet's and Christine Herron's. Also check out Renee Blodgett's coverage of the final DEMOfall dinner, which "pulled a handful of media visionaries to discuss the technologies they saw unveiled over the last couple of days, what trends were important and why." While they apparently spent most of the time dissing young people and blogs, the final thought is worth noting:
"They ran through the companies and everyone agreed on the top cool factor companies – once again, the hardware guys. High votes went to the USB battery and the wireless rabbit, but BuzzLogic also got a plug."
So BuzzLogic and USBCell seemed to be the standouts for most people.
In other news this week....
Finally, do check out Alex Iskold's latest analysis article: Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up!. This is excellent reading and the comments are great too.
A fascinating week, with lots of DEMO news - and we also seemed to focus on Google all week, for some reason. Two things I didn't get time to blog, but wish I had, were:
Roll on the new week! p.s. thanks for the comments last week, suggesting I create a new RSS feed just for the wrapups (for really busy people!). I will do that...
]]>we liked a lot of the same stuff, though he missed a couple good ones :-)
the choice of 'Demo God' winners was surprising to me (I was outta there by then) ... but, in retrospect, I guess I batted .500 on my coverage
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